2008/07/25

...yesterday the sweet italian mountain folks of the HUNDEBISS label and distribution (most probably the only underground distro in italy that sells strange tapes) visited antwerp for one day. they hooked me up big time with their OLYVETTY "im leeren" 7", the 7inch is limited to 333 copies and has this weird fold open cover art with a hand made pop out in it. i can especially dig the b side of the single, it has this strange slowed down 303 style tune in it...

A curious-enough little record, the first from Italian label Hundebiss is two short pieces of moderate noise and programming “written” by Berlin-based Riccardo Benassi and Claudio Rocchetti, heretofore known as OLYVETTY. The disc’s sleeve-as-selling point threw me a bit at first, tempering my expectations for the content given the extensive, hand-cut pop-ups and multiple panels (with printed paper sleeve attached) which would render a lesser recording superfluous. Luckily, the two sides present a tastefully sober session – not too purple, though hardly weak – a pleasant first release for the label (just the second for the duo), and worthy companion to the paper art. Side A entitled “In den fluessen noerdlich der zukunft” features the blown-out colors of metallic bowled resonance overwhelming a modem's bleat and thick chords of feedback; a gleaming groan locks in at several registers then finds the molested fragments of a salvaged violin concerto. Wayward guitar strings stress and pang over the heavy warp of so many layers coiling and releasing, the rhythmic play of compression cheating the track's actual brief duration. On the reverse, “Aneinander” starts on a stultified burst gesturing toward a harsher noise, when instead a dubby dialed-tone emerges to lay down a checkered pattern for fluid washes of repetition, both mechanical and overgrown with a stubbly foliage. Edition of 333 on black vinyl. Nice start. (Hundebliss 7”, 7€ HERE)

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http://myspace.com/computadorafelizComputadora Feliz survived a hard-core 8-bit tsunami and escaped in c-64 big big world with some 140 bpm of happyness... Shake your head and increase your size eating the mushroom...